Jay McCall

Jay McCall is the networking, managed services, and storage editor with Business Solutions magazine, a monthly publication dedicated to helping IT solutions providers grow their businesses by selling complementary technologies and moving into thriving markets.

The opening day of the 2015 Zebra Global Partner Summit at the ARIA Resort in Las Vegas focused on an important trend Zebra wanted to educate its partners about, Enterprise Asset Intelligence. Day 2 of the conference (May 4) was focused on the big questions that have been top of mind for every partner in attendance, such as: When is the new channel program going to be rolled out? How will it work? And, what will be different?

2015 may very well go down in history as the “year of disruption” in IT – and consequently in the channel. Everyone is talking about changes that are happening right now (e.g. cloud and mobility) and bigger changes to come.

This ISV’s market expertise led to a new cloud-based system that incorporates CRM, marketing, and POS (point of sale) functionality that drives up its customers’ revenue while driving down PCI (payment card industry)-related compliance costs.